9. So why did you ignore the Lord’s command? Why did you do what he says is wrong? You killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and took his wife to be your wife!
10. Now there will always be people in your family who will die by a sword, because you did not respect me; you took the wife of Uriah the Hittite for yourself!’
11. “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am bringing trouble to you from your own family. While you watch, I will take your wives from you and give them to someone who is very close to you. He will have sexual relations with your wives, and everyone will know it.
12. You had sexual relations with Bathsheba in secret, but I will do this so all the people of Israel can see it.’ ”
13. Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”Nathan answered, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You will not die.
14. But what you did caused the Lord’s enemies to lose all respect for him. For this reason the son who was born to you will die.”
15. Then Nathan went home. And the Lord caused the son of David and Bathsheba, Uriah’s widow, to be very sick.
16. David prayed to God for the baby. David fasted and went into his house and stayed there, lying on the ground all night.
17. The elders of David’s family came to him and tried to pull him up from the ground, but he refused to get up or to eat food with them.